Give Mona Lisa a camera phone and an Instagram account, and she might end up camwhoring with a duckface in front of the bathroom mirror. But of course. Classical oil painting subjects are so predictable. No idea who did this hilarious parody mocking all face-scrunchers everywhere; it was hovering in cyberspace when we found it.

Want more Mona mashups? Check out these past posts:

Mona Lisa made from cups of coffee

Mona Lisa rising up from burger grease

Mona Lisa reconstructed from thousands of jellybeans

Mona Lisa created from 6239 connected dots

Chopped food meets the Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa made from 7,500 lines of code

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Sometime in 2009, Minneapolis artist Phil Hansen painted a Mona Lisa replica from scratch by tearing off bits of burgers and blotting off the grease off them against a massive 11-foot canvas. He was commissioned to do this as a publicity stunt by a burger company to show just how grossly oil-laden their competitor’s burgers were, but still, what an amazing feat. How many burgers were drained in total? Check this: just 14. Now how many potential Mona Lisas have we devoured in our lifetime now? Hmmm…

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Anna Von Mertens paints aura readings taken from classical portraits and photographs of iconic people, commenting on the ‘soul’ in art in the digital age with the resulting ghostly images.

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Some people just have too much time! This somewhat liberal version of the iconic (ironic?) Da Vinci masterpiece was made from 3,604 coffee cups – all with varying levels of milk to affect the shading — and was displayed in Sydney as part of last year’s Aroma Festival.

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